Dr Williamson, Dr Pearse and the Pioneer Health Centre Otl Aicher Massed housing of the 1920s

Massed housing of the 1920s and 30s was as untutored as the products of light industry and both operated far from the enlightened thinking coming out of Central Europe that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress

and from his direct experience of working with many of Lubetkin’s buildings as a conservation architect

and inventive

The vase is mouthblown then the pieces are hand cut before going through several polishings

The guide is 84 pages long with 65 colour images of a variety of surviving houses

Dr Williamson, Dr Pearse and the Pioneer Health Centre Otl Aicher Massed housing of the 1920sPaperback, 416 pages By Justin De Syllas The unique story of the Peckham Experiment, an interwar local social welfare project in London with huge ambition, housed in a building by Sir Owen Williams. Unlike later buildings called health centres, The Pioneer Health Centre was not a medical facility offering curative services. It was a club in which families were encouraged to cultivate their own health, and in which the doctors who ran the Centre